Example sentences of "and [prep] [art] [adj] time the " in BNC.
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| 1 | He loved life , and for a long time the force was with him . |
| 2 | Eventually , the bloody turf wars ceased , and for a long time the authorities either winked at their illegal trade or even helped themselves to the till . |
| 3 | But Joseph had always been very devoted to any local news and for a long time the talk of the town had been the Cockermouth man — Fletcher Christian 's — Mutiny . |
| 4 | One might call this ‘ applied phonology ’ ; however , the phonological analysis of different languages raises a great number of difficult and interesting theoretical problems , and for a long time the study of phonology ‘ for its own sake ’ has been regarded as an important area of theoretical linguistics . |
| 5 | Accumulated errors were to be erased from the holy books , services were to be conducted in a more intelligible manner , sermons were to be encouraged , and scholarship was to be actively fostered in a number of monasteries ; at the same time , new saints were canonized , clergy and laity alike urged to observe the prescribed fasts , and for a brief time the government even went to the lengths of closing the taverns . |
| 6 | Mountbatten saw Charles for what he was and liked what he saw , and for the first time the growing Prince was given some real sense of his own worth . |
| 7 | This was the initial running of the world 's oldest Classic under commercial sponsorship , and for the first time the winner 's prize money topped £100,000 . |
| 8 | Soon the mousy man became exhausted by struggling with the suitcase and for the first time the Feldwebel carried it for him . |
| 9 | Overall control was returned to the Inspector-General , and for the first time the jurisdiction of the regular police was extended to cover entire districts . |
| 10 | Immediately — before Edmund 's soliloquy , Edgar , still in disguise , has given the letter to Albany ( 40–50 ) , and for the first time the forces of good have a superior knowledge over the hypocrites . |
| 11 | But one winter she got flu , her work was sapped and for the first time the critics were unkind . |
| 12 | Wilcock arrived in London , and for the first time the two men met . |
| 13 | There were further clashes between police and fundamentalists on Dec. 29 at a mosque in a Tunis suburb , and for the first time the official news agency , Tunis Afrique Presse ( TAP ) , reported the incidents . |
| 14 | The party turned around to face him and for the first time the fat man moved . |
| 15 | When they left the hospital he studied Ling 's list , and within a short time the purchases had been made , the sausages being stored in a coolbox to keep them cool . |
| 16 | This fire grew very rapidly and in a short time the port wing was burnt away . |
| 17 | Our expansion had necessitated the leasing of more expensive equipment and in a short time the café was losing a lot of money . |
| 18 | To start the saw , the starting lock at the top of the handle has to be pressed forwards and at the same time the trigger switch is squeezed . |
| 19 | It was a perfect passing away for both of them , and at the same time the most intolerable accession into being , the marvellous fullness of immediate gratification , overwhelming , outflooding from the source of the deepest life-force , the darkest , deepest , strangest life-source of the human body , at the back and base of the loins . |
| 20 | By these means there would be immediate recognition of the unity of purpose and co-operation between the Cambridge Board and the District and at the same time the work of the resident tutor would be facilitated . |
| 21 | The scheme was eventually adopted in 1838 , in preference to the Prussian plan to have the Prussian thaler used as the national currency for the whole of Germany , and at the same time the parities between the thaler and the South German florin were fixed . |
| 22 | As stated above production has almost halved since 1979 and at the same time the price of its premium Bonny light crude has fallen from $40 per barrel to $28.65 and is always threatened by the North Sea producers . |
| 23 | Comparison is difficult , but McClellan 's approach still seems the more deeply considered , and at the same time the more straightforward . |
| 24 | In the pre-1965 period a long run of higher than average precipitation allowed the spread northward of rain-fed cultivation , dominated by millet , and at the same time the increased populations placed more pressure on the vegetation for fuelwood . |
| 25 | In 1984 the OPEC member countries had to reduce their crude oil output to about one half of its potential capacity , and at the same time the price of oil per barrel fell below $30 . |
| 26 | This was agreed in February 1906 and at the same time the order for a further 14 cars of the smaller type , to work the Sutton route , was cancelled when it was realized that the fifteen ‘ Croydon & District ’ cars dumped on the site of Mitcham Road Depôt ( Aurelia Road ) would have to be taken into the South Metropolitan fleet . |
| 27 | On the one hand what the gay movement had done was to involve me in a very intense one-to-one relationship , a couple relationship , and at the same time the ideology that the movement was instilling in me was away from the idea of couple relationships and away from the idea that sex should be conventionally tied to relationships or a single relationship . |
| 28 | When a spider bites its prey , the fangs are driven into the victim and at the same time the venom is discharged from the gland , down the fangs and into the wound . |
| 29 | He ranged widely , soliciting in 1741 the office of sutler of Stirling Castle , believed to be profitable , and at the same time the contract to clothe Lord Loudoun 's independent company permanently stationed in the castle . |
| 30 | If we do not try to grasp the relations between popular music discourses and the material musical practices to which they refer , and at the same time the necessary distinctness of level between these , we are unlikely to break through the structures of power which , as Foucault makes clear , discursive authority erects . |